University Daily Kansan, August 30, 1982
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Work study stable despite budget cuts
By DONNA KELLER Staff Reporter
More students are considering the work study program as a means of financing their education to compensate for federal budget cuts this year, a financial aid official said Friday.
Pam Houston, assistant director and coordinator of the Student Employment Center, said that although there is less money for work study because of federal cuts in student aid, she will an option for eligible students.
Houston said she had taken a recent survey to get a "feel" for student employment on campus. She said she found that departments had decreased their student hour employment by approximately 20 to 25 percent.
rinson said approximately 600 students participated in the program last year, and at least 600 were eligible for the award this year.
Eligibility is determined by a formula comprising the student's budget the family contribution amount, and any benefits the students
might be receiving from agencies such as VA or social security, Houston said. From this calculation, the student is assigned an earnings limit by his financial aid counselor, Houston said.
Houston said students participating in the program were allowed to work up to 20 hours a week during the academic year, but if at some time during the semester a student reached the ceiling of his earnings limit, he would be notified by Houston to stop work.
During vacation breaks a student may work up to 40 hours a week, but may not exceed that limit.
Students participating in the work study program receive not less than $3.35 an hour, which is minimum wage.
"The University policy is minimum wage with exceptions," Houston said. "A department must petition their vice-cancellor to pay above minimum wages. By the same token, if department funds run out, they tell the student he will have to find other employment.
"Although many departments have decreased their funds for student
more of work study. The federal government supplements 30 percent of the work study program. The remaining 20 percent is funded by the University through its departments.
hourly positions, they are relying more on work study."
Houston said departments with a work study allocation in their budgets sent appointments through her office. Students with work study awards pick referral cards for the position from Houston. A student must have a referral card before interviewing for a work study position.
In order to remain in the work study program, a student must demonstrate "reasonable academic progress." The federal government requires each university to set policy for academic progress.
Houston said that at the KU academic progress is based on credit hours earned and grade point average, depending on the student's situation. A student must a junior year, have and maintain a 2.00 GPA, participate in the work study program. If academic progress has not been demonstrated when Houston reviews the student's record for the previous semester, he
will not be eligible for a work study award the following semester.
The award may be reinstated the following academic semester if academic progress is shown.
The money annotated for work study awards that are rejected is returned to financial aid, then directed back to the program. We want to participate in the program.
A student does not have to accept the award, and those students who have not picked in their cards may have decided not to enroll at KU this semester. They cannot not work, or they may have found an off-campan job. Houston said.
Houston said she should know sometime in September whether money was available for additional work study awards.
In spite of departmental budget decreases, positions are still available for student hourly positions.
Houston said a lot of students misunderstood on-campus employment.
"They think you can't work on campuses unless you have financial aid." Houston "That isn't true. You're all thirdirds of positions are student hourly positions."
Red tape, economy spur AAUP growth
The University of Kansas may have more committees than faculty members, says one KU professor.
There are grade committees, department committees, University governance committees and administration committees, said Michael Walters. He is president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
That bureaucracy muffles the voices of many faculty members. Cole, a professor at CU AUP.
The chapter membership has jumped sharply in the past year, he said, and most of the growth comes from the Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan.
Many also feared departmental budget cuts would endanger their job positions.
Many faculty members joined when administration and faculty relations, with all the red tape in between, were at a low, Coe said.
"It became important for some of us to bring in the AUP as a lobbying
party," he said. "The AAUP role was critical in opening up the lines of communication."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig also was active in working for solutions to problems, said Francis Cuppage, who is the acting director on organization of the Kansas City campus.
The AAUP membership on that campus has increased from 10 to more than 100 since last fall, Cuppage, chairman of the steering committee of the faculty assembly there, said yesterday.
The whole chapter has grown by 159 to 462 faculty members since last fall, said Hanne Christiansen, an AAUP official.
As a result of the progress, faculty members have since been involved in developing a faculty handbook, a coursebook and a five-year academic plan, he said.
"We've got a lot more members, and they're getting active now," he said. Cole wants the faculty's role to expand more, though.
"I don't think the faculty's real influence has changed much in the past 15 years," he said.
the lack of safety infrastructure. "The government structure has interfered with improving the quality of the institution." Cole said.
"Our Senate Code is much more complicated than either of the constitutions of the United States or Kansas. When you add all of this together," he said, "what you have is a self-strangulating beast."
AAUP membership at KU took a big dip in the early 1970s when the University established the KU governance system, Cole said.
The list of rules governing the university are a prime bureaucracy example.
But in the past few years, membership again has started to climb, he said.
He does not blame the KU administration, but rather its bureaucracy, for what he calls "the need to get rid of it."
"Life there is not that obviously regimented." Biggins said. "It isn't until you talk to the people that you get an understanding of the obstacles and hurdles in their lives. You really get a sense of how serious an everyday problem of finding a piece of meat or fruit is."
David Wilson, a Missouri graduate student, said the constant search for items such as footballs made the streets of the city streak all of the time looking for goods.
Soviet toothpaste was so terrible that someone would have to taste it to be effective.
"I don't think I could get across the window to have a vegetable section to them," Wilson said.
sugms said. "The people recognize that there are a lot of problems. Many Sovietis are patriotic. They are frustrated with the government, but they have a strong love of country, which tends to forgive all."
Students from several American universities participated in the program, which consisted of six weeks of work and taught language at the University in Leningrad.
"If you were expecting to see 1984, you were disappointed," said Michael Biggins, a KU instructor of Slavic language and leader of the study abroad program.
Kathy Wood, a Leawood senior, said communism made a large difference between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Several students who spent the summer in the Soviet Union said the most obvious problem there was not government oppression but rather the low quality and lack of consumer goods.
"It pervades every aspect of their lives," Wood said. "Instead of having advertisements, there were huge signs saving glory to the Communist Party."
Wood said the Soviets could not comprehend the ability to criticize the government because of their lack of freedom of speech.
Some restrictions placed on the students, who stayed in a hotel, were a r a.m. curfew, the inability to travel more than 30 kilometers from the center of the city, and a warning to keep away from the black market.
"They would buy the jeans off your body," said Biggins.
Students say goods are lacking in USSR
Soviets were not allowed to visit the hotel unless they signed in and out. Therefore, Wilson said, his Soviet friend would not visit him there.
"People were nervous with being associated with foreigners." Wilson lashed.
One of his Soviet friends disappeared for weeks, Wilson said, and then showed up when Wilson was about to leave the country.
"He had been told not to meet with foreigners." Wilson said, "He asked me not to write until six months later, until things cooled down."
things could be. All of the participants in the program agreed on the friendliness of the people.
"If you asked for directions, the people would just take you there
Friends in the Soviet Union are much more important than they are in the West.
"I am struck at how much they become attached on a deep level." Biggins said. "You can talk about anything, I suppose that a result of having to be guarded with what you say on the street. A really loyal friend is a treasured possession." Wilson added, "Dealing with a totally different system gave me a new appreciation of our system and our freedoms."
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